Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.

I believe very confidently in the truth of Scripture, where it says that there is no authority, no power given to man except as given by God.

God is telling an amazing, glorious, epic story. We have to decide if we will trust Him with it.

There’s a day that is coming when all the last will be first and every orphan will be home.

Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choir and singing with my family. Christian music became the music that I identified myself with and was a way that I expressed my faith. Even at a public school I would take my Christian music in and play it for my friends.

Out of these ashes beauty will rise.

When I go to Africa and spend more time there with people who are the least of the least, those in desperate situations, I am broken by it. But I also find people with so much more joy and freedom living with nothing than I see walking down the streets of my own community here in Tennessee.